“The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.”
― Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
― Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― As You Like It
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― As You Like It
“He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.”
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“Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.”
― Knowing God
― Knowing God
Joel’s 2025 Year in Books
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